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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1906
Page
4
A letter from South Bethlehem dated June 5 1905 describes a boy with severe eczema spreading over his body. Doctors failed to help until a spring move and sea air brought rapid improvement within ten weeks.
Lyndon Orr reviews a packet of 298 letters between Bulwer Lytton and Miss Wheeler. He notes their ludicrous epistolary flattery, using playful dog imagery and extravagant kisses. The piece questions whether publication vindicates Miss Dewey’s memory and preserves historical tone.
A column offers aphorisms on experience and promises in politics and life. It describes chickens as weather readers who seek shelter during long rain and emerge to enjoy sun again, using the scene as a broader parable.
A writer recalls Lord Tennyson on a railway platform describing him as tall yet bent shouldered with long hair and beard in an Inverness cape and a large hat. The writer thought him a melodrama bandit or a poor actor and felt sorrow watching him pace the platform.
Plan request describes a barn on a seventy five acre farm to house about four horses four milk cows and four or five young cattle with twenty five sheep. The proposal outlines a stable and fenced areas for livestock and associated storage and feeding spaces.
A 36 by 48 bank barn with eight foot basement and sixteen foot superstructure is outlined for level ground with a bank, suitable for horses cattle sheep and hay. It may be built in many areas for under 1000 dollars if the farmer handles hauling himself.
A Russian revolutionary recounts a drumhead trial in a Baltic village, where eighty were to be shot. He survived by being buried alive, escaped amid the dead, fled to the German border, reached the United States, and now seeks relief from haunting memories in a free country. He recalls his father, a journalist, and the terror of the executions.
A commentary on Luke 14 15 24 frames the kingdom feast as God’s final invitation to salvation. It contrasts invited guests who refuse with the poor and outcast gathered from the highways to fill the banquet hall. The piece links the parable to the broader promise of Messiah’s reign and the cost of discipleship.
A vintage DIY tip describes removing lint from a clogged sink drain using a bent wire or button hook, and if blocked further, a planking hammer trick to transmit shock through the pipe. The second item recounts a Marlopol harbor incident where a freight steamer faced fines for manifest discrepancies with cargo numbering.
A farming method to renew worn soils uses successive pasture crops for hogs with partial grain. Grow corn for pigs and plant cowpeas or crimson clover to sustain fertility, then a three year rotation of oats rye sorghum or cowpeas with optional artichokes or potatoes. Maintain sod for wet periods and avoid soil puddling.
August is prime lima bean production as farmers advise keeping vines clean and avoiding dead ripe pods to preserve plant vigor. Warnings about white beans spoiling price, early beans selling well in pint boxes, and peck market baskets in green netting. Also discusses preservation of iron via Portland cement coatings and a rust prevention tip for pen handles.
A young lawyer buys an alarm clock saying he will not change it. The clerk asks about his wake time at home, and he explains he rises at noon after closing his office and going home. The exchange appears in a Philadelphia press item.
Advice from American Cultivator notes humid weather fosters downy mildew leaf blight and thracnose on cucumbers and melons with outbreaks tied to warmth and moisture. Bordeaux mixture spraying is the recommended remedy with specific formulas for young and established vines. Swede turnips emerge as a strong second crop, with careful soil prep, timely harvesting, and cost-efficient weed control advised.
The piece sketches Australia’s Northern Territory as a remote, unsettled region with Palmerston noted for a Chinese majority and a tense racial dynamic. It imagines buffalo roaming plains and hints at a future sportsman’s paradise. The text includes a lighthearted club anecdote about courting days.
Modern life pressures push men to work longer hours in better furnished homes, separating them from wives and families. The text argues these forces erode ordinary family life and increase strain on households.
The article extols advertising as a vast, evolving industry that educates the public, promotes prosperity, and could benefit churches, schools, and professionals if given fuller prominence. It argues advertising should be allowed for physicians and lawyers and compares it to other trades, citing Leslie's Weekly on the tailor bird’s cunning nest making.
Paris authorities prolong street lighting tests using ugal, a hydrocarbon byproduct from blast furnace coke. The light reportedly surpasses alcohol in softness, with a 100 candle lamp costing a cent per hour and a domestic laser lamp delivering double light at half the cost of kerosene.
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